[Voice]

[shark_face]

I don't know what kind of sick joke this is, but it ends here.

[Scared? Who's scared? Certainly not Rin. He's pissed off, and that's the most you'll get out of him. Even if it is kind of creepy, watching the words he speaks appear in the journal.]

You've had your laugh. Tell your friends all about your lame prank. I bet you're really proud. But I'm going back, now.

Can't believe I'm talking to a -...

[Dammit, it wasn't supposed to record that as well. There's an audible tch before he snaps the journal shut.]

Comments

[Voice]

[alwaysgrumpy]

Well, that would be nice, but it ain't gonna' happen. For any of us.

[Voice]

[shark_face]

Speak for yourself.

If we came here, we can go back. I'm not hanging around when I got better things to do.

Re: [Voice]

[alwaysgrumpy]

Unless you're carryin' a space-ship around with you, or you're some super-wizard that can magic up a portal out of here, you're as stuck as the rest of us. What'll you do? Swim away? Where? Are you even from this world?

[Voice]

[notsokillerwhale]

[ He recognizes that voice and that anger! ]

Rin!

[ He's, of course, happy to hear you. ]

[Voice]

[shark_face]

[ngl, the anger is as distinctive as the teeth.]

Makoto?!

[That takes a moment to process - but then Rin moves on to the important question without delay.]

The others?

[Sorry Makoto, you're pretty much a side dish to Rin even if he secretly respects your swimming.]

[Voice]

[notsokillerwhale]

[ He knows he is not as important as certain others. He has learned to accept and even adopt this way of thinking. However, he still wants to know how his friend is doing even if his friend is kind of a jerk. ]

Haru's here too.

[ Even though MAKOTO loves Rei, he doesn't bother mentioning him because he figures Rin doesn't classify him as one of the "others".

SECRETLY HOPES THAT WARS ARE NOT STARTED OVER SWIMMING IN THIS PIRATE WORLD NOW THAT RIN IS HERE. ]

Are you all right? I'm so glad you seem unharmed!

voice;

[watchesthesea]

I don't think this is a joke. If it was then it's not a good one.

voice;

[shark_face]

I didn't say I was laughing.

voice;

[watchesthesea]

I noticed. But maybe we can make an adventure out of this.

[wavesoakedlegs]

[That kind of reaction is to be expected; there is a thread of sympathy in Mitsuhide's voice, though mostly it is quiet and calm.]

Unfortunate as it is, you are indeed now bound to this world until either our captor chooses to send us back or you are able to locate a certain fabled jewel... provided it does actually have the power it has been said it does.

[shark_face]

It's not even sure it works?!

[Another annoyed noise; Rin can't deal with this. Righteous anger is much easier than trying to come to terms with being stuck here.]

[wavesoakedlegs]

I could not tell you about the specter itself, but none of us are sure. Many legends like this could be considered metaphorical, or simply false.

[He sighs deeply. Nothing is certain, right now.]

At this stage, however, it is the only hope anyone has of returning home. At the very least, wandering through these islands may give us more information about our situation.

[Written]

[no_souls_here]

If only it were a joke. It would save me a world of trouble.

[The lettering was in cursive, but easy to discern]

I take it that you are not from around here, either?

[Voice - Rin isn't going to bother writing when he can talk]

[shark_face]

That's an understatement.

[Really - who lives in a shithole like this, anyway?]

They took you, too?

[Written - Ciel isn't going to bother with voice until he convinces enough people to join his crew ]

[no_souls_here]

A grievous one at that.

[It is a bit dilapidated, and he cannot say much for the icy reception of the locals]

Indeed. For what ever reason they seem to have taken a wide selection of individuals and placed them on this godforsaken rock. Then they have the gall to implore upon us to retrieve some mystical bobble. [Ciel was taking a slightly different approach in conversing with this person]

voice

[bydesign]

It's not a prank.

Kinda wish it were, hehe.

voice

[shark_face]

Whatever it is, it better end fast.

[But he's sulky more than aggressive, now. She sounds like a young girl, after all, and even Rin is not enough of a dick to act out at those.]

voice

[bydesign]

I'm sorry to be a bearer of bad news, but you're kind of a... Second batch of arrivals.

I've been here for a month or so.

[voice]

[onlyswimfree]

Ah-

[some silence. he started talking out of surprise, but then found he didn't know that to say]

...Rin?

[voice]

[shark_face]

[At least Makoto has told Rin that Haru's here already. It makes it a little easier to hear that voice, but Rin still can't help the way it stirs up conflicting and barely understood emotions in him.]

That's a question? Don't tell me you've forgotten the guy who soundly beat you already.

[Nevermind what came after, and how it pisses Rin off.]

[onlyswimfree]

I wanted to check.

[in a very small way, he is glad for Rin's attitude, because it confirms that it's him. In a larger way, however, he is definitely prickled into competitiveness. oh, rin]

I couldn't, because it won't happen again.

[Voice]

[worksintheory]

I suppose logically we shouldn't be surprised that you were brought here as well.

[Voice]

[shark_face]

[It takes Rin more than a moment to recognize that voice, and the fact that he does is more thanks to the context of the last person who replied to him than anything.]

Speedo Glasses?

Makoto didn't mention you were here.

[No wonder, really. It's not like someone like Rei is worth mentioning.]

[Voice]

[bravelittlehero]

Is someone being mean to you?

[Voice]

[shark_face]

Hah?

... No, it's nothing.